Subscribe to Moronmeter!GOP Senator — Suicide or Apology
Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), had this to say today in an interview with WMT-AM in Cedar Rapids, Iowa:
“I don’t know whether the ($165 million in bonuses) is an issue as much as just the chutzpah of the people running AIG,” Grassley said. “That they could thumb their nose at the taxpayers, it’s more that.
“The attitude of these corporate executives and bank executives, and most of them are in New York, that somehow they’re not responsible for their company going into the tank,” he said.
“I suggest, you know, obviously maybe they ought to be removed, but I would suggest that the first thing that would make me feel a little bit better towards them [is] if they would follow the Japanese example and come before the American people and take that deep bow and say I’m sorry and then either do one of [two] things: resign or go commit suicide.”
Grassley added, “In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.”
Personally, I think he doesn’t go far enough. I’d like to see this applied to failed politicians, too.
How about all currently active Senators and Representatives, who were in office before the 2008 elections, line up on the steps of Capital Hill and follow Senator Grassley’s advice?
None of them seem to ever want to take responsibility for anything that goes wrong, but all of them were in Congress while everything went to Hell in a handbasket.
If we are going to clean things up, we might as well make a clean sweep, no?
Link:
Political Punch: GOP Senator: AIG Execs Should Follow Japanese Model — Suicide or Apology.
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